Titanic Growth

"Yo, Atlas, you heard about the new boss?"

Atlas Jack turned to his friend and Colleague and said, "A little Mr. MacDonald E i E i oh said that she'd be coming around in a bit."

Zahir tilted his head to the lead Zookeeper and said, "You do all this research and testing for the animals, but the moment a new owner comes in, you're like ehh?"

"Yeah. I like animals, not people," Atlas said as he was locking up Tony's cage.

Zahir scowled and said, "Yeah, because nothing says friendly like a massive tiger with armor and fangs the size of machetes."

Atlas nodded as he said, "Exactly, He doesn't worry about me, meaning I am free to be myself."

Zahir rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, just be prepared when she gets here. I hear she is a bit of a spitfire."

Atlas turned to Zahir and said, "The Hell does that even mean?"

"It's a figure of speech, dumbass," Zahir answered, annoyed.

After that, Zahir left, leaving Atlas to wait for the new boss. In the meantime, he decided to set up the schedule for next weekend. Then, after he finished, Atlas went to the second Megfauna in the Zoo, where he was responsible for Sloppy Joe.

Atlas walked from one end of the zoo to the other, tired. When he got into the muddy and dirty enclosure, Sloppy Joe rose from the murky swamp water. His furrowed brow and whiskers seem to say

"You're late,"

"I had to take care of Tony," Atlas answered.

"You always favor him, but people come to see me," Sloppy Joe's viasge responded.

Atlas rolled his eyes as he said, "Yeah, he's essentially my boy. I raised Tony, named him, the whole nine,"

"Fine, I will let this slide. Did you bring the fish?" Sloppy asked

"Of course, grilled lotus coming right up," Atlas responded.

Sloppy Joe swam happily in his mud before surfacing.

After feeding the big mud serpent, I left the enclosure locked and secured before moving on to my next task, when I met the new boss.

"So you're the Zookeeper I have heard so much about," I heard a feminine voice say. There was a slight rasp to it that was both alluring and could be potentially grating.

I turned from the console to secure the enclosure to see a young woman of Asian descent (probably Korean based on the accent tag) staring at me.

I felt a deep irritation seeing her that seemingly overrode any rational thought.

"You must be the new boss. I didn't expect you to be dressed so casually," I said, despite not really believing it, because she was dressed in a pantsuit and screamed business.

The young woman gave a smug smirk and said, "Big talk from someone in shorts and a t-shirt."

I gestured to the enclosure, "Oh, this is just for dealing with the Almudron. You know it gets dirty with those mud puppies,"